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Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women
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Columbia researchers have found that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later life compared to women born in the least sexist states.
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Information Security Essentials | Columbia University Press
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As technological and legal changes have hollowed out the protections that reporters and news organizations have depended upon for decades, information securi... | CUP
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Deregulation reinforces a Wild West mindset that is inappropriate for the crowded planet that we all live on.
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The Ages of Globalization | Columbia University Press
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Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. ... | CUP
on Dec 10
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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Affected the Cryptocurrency Market | CLS Blue Sky Blog
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In our recent paper, we conducted an empirical analysis to test how the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic affected the market for cryptocurrencies (“cryptomarket”). One year into the pandemic, this market seems to have boomed.
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America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know.
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Columbia researchers are developing innovative ways to protect communities most vulnerable to floods and other disasters.
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In Search of an Open Mind | Columbia University Press
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Throughout his twenty-one-year tenure as president of Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger was an outspoken national leader on many of the major issues conf... | CUP
on Dec 3
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Unexplained Heat-Wave ‘Hotspots’ Are Popping Up Across the Globe
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Distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves so extreme, they cannot be explained by climate models.
on Nov 26
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If a post-truth field of science is going to keep going, it needs to convince funders and the public that progress is being made, so there’s a continual need for people uninterested in truth …
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What You Really Need to Do to Boost Your Immunity
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Quick fixes are not the answer when seeking ways to boost your immunity or increase your protection against infection.
on Nov 22
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Humanism and Democratic Criticism | Columbia University Press
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In the radically changed and highly charged political atmosphere that has overtaken the United States—and to varying degrees the rest of the world—since ... | CUP
on Nov 21
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There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest figure…
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Citizen Scholar | Columbia University Press
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What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must... | CUP
on Nov 20
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Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States: June 2024 Edition
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Achieving lower carbon emissions in the United States will require developing a massive number renewable energy facilities at an unprecedented scale and pace. Although many renewable energy facilities are sited without any problem, local opposition often arises. This report updates and...
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False Prophets of Economics Imperialism | Columbia University Press
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This book studies the methodological revolution that has resulted in economists’ mathematical market models being exported across the social sciences. The ... | CUP
on Nov 13
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Terrorism and Counterintelligence | Columbia University Press
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Protecting information, identifying undercover agents, and operating clandestinely—efforts known as counterintelligence—are the primary objectives of ter... | CUP
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Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.
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Staging Sovereignty | Columbia University Press
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To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage ... | CUP
on Nov 8
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Made in Censorship | Columbia University Press
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The violent suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations is thought to be contemporary China’s most taboo subject. Yet despite sweeping censorsh... | CUP
on Oct 28
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Political Polarization Poses Health Risks, New Analysis Concludes
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Political polarization also poses significant health risks, according to new research.
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Michael Harris | MATHEMATICS GU4200, Spring 2025 (page under construction)
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Professor of Mathematics
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The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). That’s because the parties to the London Convention and London Protocol are meeting from October 28 to November 1 in London to discuss, among other things,...
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Announcement Regarding Dr. Donald Landry
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We are writing to inform you that Donald W. Landry, MD, PhD, will step down as Chair of the Department of Medicine at VP&S on April 1, 2023.
on Oct 25
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The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Ceaseless Assault on Climate Policy
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The fossil fuel energy business is dying, and the only question is how long it will take to die.
on Oct 24
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The Divine Comedy – Digital Dante
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Digital Dante offers original research and ideas on Dante: on his thought and work and on various aspects of his reception.
on Oct 23
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The Journalist's Predicament | Columbia University Press
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Low pay. Uncertain work prospects. Diminished prestige. Why would anyone still want be a journalist? Drawing on in-depth interviews in France and the United ... | CUP
on Oct 21
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The Loyalty Trap | Columbia University Press
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Donald J. Trump took office threatening to run roughshod over democratic institutions, railing against the federal bureaucracy, and calling for dismantling t... | CUP
on Oct 20
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Hacking Bacteria to Attack Cancer
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Columbia researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells.
on Oct 18
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How Buying Stuff Drives Climate Change
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Consumerism causes a large chunk of our carbon emissions. Here are a few ideas for healthier habits during the holidays and beyond.
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Immigration Realities | Columbia University Press
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Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. They are eager to learn local languages. Immigration is not a burden on social services. Border walls do not wor... | CUP
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A Physician’s Journey into the Minds of Coma Patients
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In studying people with severe brain injuries, Columbia neurologist Jan Claassen hopes to better identify those likely to regain consciousness.
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Left Adrift · Columbia Global Reports
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A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics—with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended right—are now more likely to split along...
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Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure | Columbia University Press
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"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were we... | CUP
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Page: Literature Humanities - HUMA CC1001 and HUMA CC1002 — Literature Humanities or “Lit Hum,” as it is popularly known, is a year-long course that offers students the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of significant works. In Literature Humanities, students make sense of...
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Hurricane Katrina 19 Year Later, What Policies Have Changed
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Read more about some of the key policy developments since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005.
on Oct 2
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Dying to Forget | Columbia University Press
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Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the Un... | CUP
on Sep 26
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Creditworthy | Columbia University Press
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The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bur... | CUP
on Sep 24
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Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist Awarded 2024 Horwitz Prize for Discovering the ESCRT Pathway
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Columbia awards the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist for discovering the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway and revealing how it works.
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The Rebirth of Suspense | Columbia University Press
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Typically, films are suspenseful when they keep us on the edge of our seats, when glimpses of a turning doorknob, a ticking clock, or a looming silhouette qu... | CUP
on Sep 18
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Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema | Columbia University Press
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Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first volume dedicated to a multi-genre... | CUP
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The Ohio Toxic Train Wreck and Government’s Failure of Regulation and Response
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We need to improve the way we regulate the transport, use, and disposal of toxic substances.
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Mayors in the Middle | Columbia University Press
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What does local self-government look like in the absence of sovereignty? From the beginning of its occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israel has experiment... | CUP
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Section 2.1 (0003): Comments—The Stacks project
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an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic geometry
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As climate change puts more pressure on the global food supply, agriculture will, by necessity, adopt practices that may exacerbate its environmental impact.
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Will Your Data Come Back to Haunt You?
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In "The Secret Life of Data," Aram Sinnreich ’00JRN explores the unknown impacts of the information age.
on Sep 11
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Climate Radicals · Columbia Global Reports
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Are radical climate activists hurting the cause? Germany should have been a global leader in combating climate change—its voters consider it a major issue and back the world’s most powerful Green Party. Yet, Germany’s climate policies have been disappointing. What happened? In Climate Radicals,...
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Avery Library launches Frank Lloyd Wright Digital Archive – Avery Library Blog
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Avery Library Blog | News about collections, services, events and exhibits from Avery Library
on Sep 8
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Far-UVC Light Can Virtually Eliminate Airborne Virus in an Occupied Room
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Far-UVC light dramatically reduced airborne virus levels in a room where people were working, in the first study of the new air disinfection technology outside of an experimental setting.
on Sep 3
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Are We Really All Suckers for Fake News?
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A new study sheds light on the need for greater media literacy.
on Sep 3